linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] firewire: switch ioctl_queue_iso to use of copy_from

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Date:   Fri, 29 May 2020 00:58:26 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] firewire: switch ioctl_queue_iso to use of copy_from_user()

From: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>

no point trying to do access_ok() for all those __copy_from_user()
at once.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
---
 drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c b/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c
index 6e291d8f3a27..c7ea4f2d5ca6 100644
--- a/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c
+++ b/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c
@@ -1081,8 +1081,6 @@ static int ioctl_queue_iso(struct client *client, union ioctl_arg *arg)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	p = (struct fw_cdev_iso_packet __user *)u64_to_uptr(a->packets);
-	if (!access_ok(p, a->size))
-		return -EFAULT;
 
 	end = (void __user *)p + a->size;
 	count = 0;
@@ -1120,7 +1118,7 @@ static int ioctl_queue_iso(struct client *client, union ioctl_arg *arg)
 			&p->header[transmit_header_bytes / 4];
 		if (next > end)
 			return -EINVAL;
-		if (__copy_from_user
+		if (copy_from_user
 		    (u.packet.header, p->header, transmit_header_bytes))
 			return -EFAULT;
 		if (u.packet.skip && ctx->type == FW_ISO_CONTEXT_TRANSMIT &&
-- 
2.11.0